Loco-regional relapses from rectal cancer

Loco-regional relapses from rectal cancer

Background Loco-regional relapses (LRRs) from rectal cancer still represent a major issue in colo-rectal surgery. With the introduction of Total Mesorectal Excision (TME), LRR incidence after curative resection for rectal cancer dramatically decreased from 20–40% of cases to 2–12%. Several factors are involved in predicting LRRs, the most important of these being Dukes stage. When no treatment ...

Role of endoscopic ultrasonography in the loco-regional staging of patients with rectal cancer.

The prognosis of rectal cancer (RC) is strictly related to both T and N stage of the disease at the time of diagnosis. RC staging is crucial for choosing the best multimodal therapy: patients with high risk locally advanced RC (LARC) undergo surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy (NAT); those with low risk LARC are operated on after a preoperative short-course radiation therapy...

3 D - Cube sequence in preoperative loco - regional staging in rectal cancer : is a one - shot diagnosis possible ?

Imaging paradigms in assessment of rectal carcinoma: loco-regional and distant staging

The role of imaging in the management of rectal malignancy has progressively evolved and undergone several paradigm shifts. Unlike a few decades ago when the role of a radiologist was restricted at defining the longitudinal extent of the tumour with barium enema, recent advances in imaging techniques permit highly accurate locoregional and distant staging of the disease as well as prognosticati...

Rectal cancer: a review

  Rectal cancer is the second most common cancer in large intestine. The prevalence and the number of young patients diagnosed with rectal cancer have made it as one of the major health problems in the world. With regard to the improved access to and use of modern screening tools, a number of new cases are diagnosed each year. Considering the location of the rectum and its adjacent organs, ma...